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The Register: Post Red Hat Knock-Off, Sun Still Plans Own Linux

"Sun Microsystems Inc has maintained that it will be developing
its own extensions to the Linux operating system after confirming
suggestions that its recently released Sun Linux 5.0 distribution
is based almost entirely on Red Hat Inc's Linux 7.2...

"Announcing its plans to introduce its first general purpose
Linux server back in February, Santa Clara, California-based Sun
said that it would be developing its own Linux distribution and
including technologies from its own Solaris version of Unix to
bolster Linux's reliability and stability.

"However, with the release of Sun Linux 5.0 this week, it was
clear that its development was not entirely Sun's own work. The
company's own developer resources describe Sun Linux 5.0 as 'highly
compatible with Red Hat Linux 7.2' and describes the differences
between the two as RPM package manager versions and installer
functions..."